This Is The DUMBEST And Most DANGEROUS Drive Home Yet...
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- When you buy broken cars day in and day out, what's the one vehicle you actually need? The answer is always a rollback. Being able to drag cars out of places without a trailer quickly makes life much easier, but nobody wants to pay a towing company, it's easier to just buy your own truck. That was the plan with @RichRebuilds tow truck, but little did I know it should've been towed home itself.
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#TowTruck #PowerstrokeNation #Internation
He wanted to make sure you had enough fuel to get off of his property before the truck died.
😂😂😂
That's definitely Rich's style
The banter between JR and Rich is hilarious 😂
Great cross over.
I heard they may next collab with Ikea
I'd love to see JR Rich and Alex do a massive collab... like a CarTrek spinoff series :p
@@SteveBassen Ikea furniture assembly channel?
You and Rich make a great team
Rich can get tiresome in a hurry!
Uncle Rich is top tier comedian. No joke goes wasted.
This tow truck definitely needs a 2 speed rear end. Be able to go a bit faster.
2 speed rear and a smoke toon lol
More importantly: to reduce the engine speed.
This will improve fuel efficiency, reduce cabin noise, lower coolant system pressure, and reduce the stress for engine components.
After all, these trucks were made in an era where highway speeds were lower.
Imagine it tomorrow loaded up!
And a DT 466
As a general rule, the 2 speed axles have a normal ratio and a lower gear. You usually don't get any extra speed with them, just split gears to spend more time near peak torque
Funny thing is that truck was probably disgned with the smaller tire and wheel package and some dumb ass put the larger set on it
That’s not fire alarm testing. That’s people smoking weed in a non smoking hotel. The same happens down here.
Maintenance was checking the whole hotel 🍻
You forgot another advantage of living in Kansas - you can watch your dog run away for three days ;)
Damn this is a good one 😂😂
You’ve been watching race across the world
Hopefully never to return.
Lol!
Yes
Sure hope JR gets his dad and brother in on tow truck rehab project. IF it makes it to Wichita, looking forward to R&R'ing rusted steel, a much newer and more powerful engine/trans, etc. Now, that's a series I would definitely watch.
Keep this series going. You two are hilarious. Good stuff.
Oh John you should have gone around NY via 287. I am a truck driver, and have to drive over the GWB quite often, and avoid it like the plaque. I have mentally removed 95 and the GWB from my mental map. You have about an hour window between 2 and 3 am when traffic is at its lightest..oh you’ll still get stuck in traffic, but only for a little while.
Shit he should have just cut across I-90 to Albany, and then hopped down the Southern Tier expwy to Erie and south from Cleveland.
Not sure who takes more chances driving cross country for a car, WatchJRGo or Alex from Legit Street Cars. Hope you make it back in one piece and the truck does not let you down.
@auto auction rebuilds has done his share
Junkyard digs does a few too
Rich has to know the fire marshall or every hotel hostess in town. Either way, guarantee he's behind these fire alarm tests lol. You guys just chatting in the car is hilarious. Make a new channel where this is all you do... Real Talk with Ross & Rich
Yes! this would make a fantastic podcast
This man is sitting at home watching us wonder if he made it home. I have to say, I'm invested in this trip. 🤣
Who is this Rich Rebuilds? Gonna check him out. He sounds like good fun!-
13:28 everything works, check engine light also works 😂😂😂😂 EPIC 😂💪
So not only did Rich send a 1 star Uber driver to pick you up, he didn't even put you up in the luxury accommodation he fitted out at the back of his shop.
Unbelievable!
WJRG, you have some stones! I think it would have been prudent to do a fluids change prior to getting on the highway. Always bypass New York, that hell hole was not made for cars..lol. I am looking forward to the rest of this test of your patience, it is going to be epic.
I spent today in Manhattan on my motorcycle, its prefect for the city as well. Cool to see your take on my home towns traffic situation.
Louis Rossmann used to tool around Manhattan on an E-bike and it looked like it went well for him.
Also for the high idle pretty sure you can turn on cruise and use the resume/accel switch to raise/lower RPM
That’s how our fuel trucks are set up, and they use the same chassis
@@stephenhayes3765 ya pretty sure that's the case on any International unless it's just not working for whatever reason.
As someone who has driven a full-length truck and trailer in New York City, you're absolutely right. It's amazing that New Jersey is a breath of fresh air after dealing with that. It's kind of disturbing when you realize that New Jersey was a sigh of relief and a breath of fresh air.
You clearly never driven through the nice parts of NJ.
@@Veldkamp88 I have and there's a lot of beautiful things to look at in New Jersey. Newark New Jersey is not one of them
@@truckerdaveandred6731 Or Elizabeth. South Jersey is where to be
@@Veldkamp88 i used to go to Vineland and it's really nice there. Southern Jersey is really nice
@@truckerdaveandred6731 take the family to the Historic Smithville. Great historical village to go shopping, food, etc. Not far from Atlantic City.
Driving over the GWB in ... anything... is an exercise in fear and loathing.
4:45 Always choose Kone elevators. They're from Finland so you can't go wrong with the engineering.. :D Cheers from the country of Kone.
Rich, my wife just went all in on an Ikea kitchen. They should advertise, that stuff is affordable and works perfect. Soft close drawers make her happy. IDK, What ever.
They are really unpopular with kitchen fitters as there is no cavity behind the base units for piping etc. They are though good if space is limited for this exact same reason.
Advantages of living in Kansas, fewer steel eating termites. Also, it's a red state, ranked 25th in taxes, Massachusetts 34th.
Naming 4 different elevator manufacturers off the top of your head may be the most impressive thing I have seen on this channel.
You should have skipped i95 south of CT. Besides the ridiculous tolls, you could avoid a lot of traffic. You shoot across to i87 south to the Palisades to I80 west. Then take 287 south to 78 west to i81 south. A bit longer, but much faster and a whole bunch cheaper. Especially when you are paying commercial vehicle tolls.
That's the safe bet.
I use to drive one of those in a rollback form and in a box van form. Not comfortable at all and no way would I drive one 20 pluse hours. Lol.
Oh, this looks interesting 😂 Rich again, what could possibly go wrong...
I don't live in Kansas but one seeming advantage you didn't mention is you're within a 2 day drive, max, of anywhere in the country (besides AK and HI). Plus gas there is relatively cheap unlike here in Phoenix where it costs at least $1.00 a gallon more than the rest of the country.
I’m loving the colabs, with you and Rich…………you two get to bantering, it’s non stop laughs….and Rich also forgot to tell you, the roads in Boston have no markings, you just find a line and take it..
Hey, I drove an international with PTO, and you can set the cruise control while the truck is in neutral instead of the 2x4 on the pedal. This should help the bed move faster.
P.S you can have the governor changed since you own the truck.
You know Rich phoned the hotel and asked them to do a fire test lol
Good old T444E (7.3L powerstroke)! Even for a truck that big, it shouldn't have any trouble on hills given how low it's geared. I'm betting the CEL is related to your low power situation. If you can get a scan tool on it, monitor ICP and IPR duty cycle % to check the health of the high pressure oil system. If your IPR is maxed out (40% on the older models) and you're seeing low ICP, you've got a leak somewhere.
So...... add Faygo?
I was just thinking something has to be wrong with it. We have a tall roof 23 passenger bus with the 7.3. It has no trouble doing 65 and can do 75 if I push it.
@@05milmachine90 We had a 1999 F550 at my old job with a 4.88 rear axle. You'd turn around 2650rpm at 70mph. Even if he's got 5.13s, it should still do better than 55mph at full snot!
I feel you on the kitchen situation. I used to cook meals but that was years ago. I don't even have a stove. I have a toaster oven, coffeemaker, and refrigerator. I live by myself so I really don't need much. I did however buy a giant sectional that I've sat on for maybe 30mins in the last year. It just felt odd to only have an 85" tv and a recliner in my living room without any other furniture.
With IKEA, if you assemble your furniture where it's going to spend its life, then it's good stuff. You run into issues when you start moving it
Also I thoroughly enjoy the tow truck load of dry sarcasm in this video
I got a good laugh when I saw you were going to the GWB, George Washington Bridge, ...I've lived in NYC, and visited it fairly often when I lived in Canada, and I've never seen traffic on the GWB be much better than stop and go. Come in at noon, or midnight...even once at 3 am...still clogged with traffic. Back in the 1980s I was headed for an SF convention out on Long Island with a science fiction author Donald Kingsbury, and as we came up upon the GWB, he looked out the windshield and said "Big Spaghetti", and so well defines the highways there.
Tappan Zee bridge all the way! I commuted from NJ to NH for several years while living in NJ. Huge time saver.
@@Heffelz8 Agreed!! I haven't been over the new Tappan Zee bridge yet, and it is so typically New Yorkian that despite it being "officially" named "Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge", no one calls it that, and still uses the old name.
Rich has got such a great sense of humor! He cracks me up! 😂😂😂
MD is beautiful this time of year. Glad you were here on a nice day
I lived in CT for 30yrs,moved down south been here now for 2yrs now,THANK GOD
I been a subscriber for awhile Worcester mass is my home town 25 minutes from Boston nice to see you in Boston with rich 🏎💨
Imagine the conversation between Rich and John from Massachusetts to Kansas.
Two of my favorite UA-cam persons, doesn't get much better than this 👍. Looking forward to the next episode.
You and rich need to collab more- great banter and vibe
Thing needs a Tony Wildman tune! I had one on my '96 F350 crew cab diesel and it was excellent. From "emissions test" to "accelerate climate change", the four position switch had all the needed tunes.
I live in Reading UK and when ever I get into an OTIS lift, I say, man this lift has soul. (I know it is Otis Redding).
Haha😂
More of these!!
I grew up near Annapolis, worked there for a few years too. Traffic is awful there, i live on the shore now, no traffic. Had i known you were coming you could of picked up the Honda E pace car !...or a 71 Cadillac convertible that needs a home.
Rich and JR are almost like a modern Click and Clack. Tales from Lake Barnstable.
good god man, I cant believe you did the Cross Bronx Xpressway and the GW in that beast. Wow.
I lived in Wichita for 16 years, moved to Nevada 2 years ago .... love it here. ... Lived near Hoovie :)
Lmao! Awesome to see you taking the GW in your video! Sometimes I cross is 4 times in one night. And next time you're in New Haven CT and need diesel stop at Birksire off 91! You'll get great price on fuel and if you tell them you're an owner operator you'll get a discount.
I would definitely buy a second hand car from this guy..................maybe.
Hilarious 😂 next episode rich goes to Kansas
When I lived in NJ, drove an F450 Powerstroke 7.3 with a 11ft. service bed into NYC daily, an absolute nightmare, during 9/11 times? Had a taxi clip my bumper when he switched 5 lanes at once? Your going over the GWB, so smooth sailing, don't go downtown, whatever you do? Good luck, JR.
Rich is the man 😎
He’s okay….
Saw you at Topgolf in Wichita , didn't come over to say.
The I8 looks awesome.
Thanks!!
JR is starting a towing business! Great!
Not a Powerstroke. T444E. Different turbo different injector nozzles different tuning and computers. Long block is the same and that’s about it. If you’re keeping it, put an Allison 2500 transmission on it, way better than that AT545 including overdrive.
I never thought I'd hear you have to stop at a wawa. Wawa is everywhere up this way
Fuel filters. Oil change. Grease all round. Adjust brakes. Air filter element. Flush and blast radiator. Many O-rings and curses to fix the hydraulics 😆
Fun fact… Wichita has a violent crime rate of 2.77/1000 people, property crimes is 11.5/1000; Boston is 1.12/100 for violent crime and 3.43 for property crime (Stats are for 2021). Statistically you are safer in Boston, buy a significant amount.
You got to watch tolls on the NJ Turnpike, Garden State Parkway, etc, if don't have the E Z Pass? Unless can pay a "person" at a toll booth if is someone there? The E Z Pass lane may have no one there and then screwed. Tolls anywhere may be E Z Pass or whatever it's called but if a person isn't there are screwed. Some states use the same E Z Pass thing.
OH!!! THAT'S why you are going to Wichita via DC AND why you got a tow truck.
I live in nyc and you’re stuck on the cross bronx traffic , it’s like that every single day
Except for early Sunday morning. 4am-7am
I drove an old 7.3 international tow truck, steel bed for a bit, it would do 70mph loaded with 2 trucks to the badlands, took probably 5 minutes to get to that speed, but again, that was loaded with 2 4x4 trucks. Sounds like that one may be a bit low on power for some reason, low boost, or maybe a fuel delivery issue.
Safe travels John!
8:42
THIS is probably why my channel on luxury appliances will probably go nowhere. 😂
The GW Bridge is about a nightmare of a stretch of road. Can be open traffic until then and then as soon as you are past it boom traffic moves. And you drove right past me in Delaware. Yes, Delaware is a state and yes you drove probably all of 5 minutes through it on I95.
14:30 he dont know how that pump works. its supposed to run by gravity you just start it going with the pump. The jerry can has to be higher than the tank.
Cross Bronx is always traffic jammed up. I hate it but if your in the NYC area is unavoidable
Good move Jr you can never go wrong with your own tow truck , It will pay for its self with the things you can do with it and international runs forever!
Good Thing you were going out of NYC with the tow truck. Bridge toll for that thing would've been over $30. or more!!
I cannot imagine making that drive in that truck. I drive Rhode Island to Maryland routinely for work, and New York City is a crap hole at best. I’ve also driven from Maryland to Colorado straight through Kansas multiple times without stopping. A long 24hrs. The Army only gave you so much leave. There is no way I would want to do that long of a drive in an international truck ever again. I did it once in an international moving truck and it was horrible. Good luck
You should have changed the fuel filters and blew out the main air filter so you know your getting full flow your engine light you can pull codes manually and you use the cruise control switch to make the high idle for tow bed operations on that model
Love these shows my friend, would never see the country any other way.
Might as well pick up a car on the drive home
All in the next episode 💯
The low voltage at start out is normal. That’s the glow plugs cycling That’s why it popped back up. You’re good to go over there.
Start up*
😂😂😂....- " A quarter million still puts you in four thousand square foot home " ....
JR, for some reason this gave me anxiety 😮. Lol
Don’t know why? But it did . BTW Riches Truck wow that’s
really an awesome truck. Does it look as good in person?
Man I remember as kid going on roadtrips when the speed limit was 55, it felt like days to get through states.
Hit up Home Depot and rig up a propane injection kit
This has definitely got me on my toes (tows) lol exciting for sure driving this thing home!
Looks like fun from where I’m sitting!👍
Hey JR next time your in Boston can you drop off some lobsters in Indiana 😊on your way home. Free stay and boat ride.
Love your channel but being from Mass loving Rich’s content as well thanks for introducing his channel
I drive truck for a living, and I absolutely hate going to the evil Northeast
You’re in Glohstah Mass!?!? How cool! You should call the truck “ a perfect storm “
Gotta stop by New York one day. Sure you'll never forget that cross Bronx .I'm 20 minutes from there
Kinda funny, i do cook in my kitchen but still never use the built in appliances - The microwave boosted convection oven, deep fryer, and the instant pot are just more useful.
Man I am jealous of the IKEA talk. I live 3 hours away and a border crossing or 6 hours to stay in the USA to get to the closest IKEA
Huge pool of hydraulic fluid underneath. I wouldn't worry too much about that 😮
That low voltage on startup is from the glow plugs. They run for a while even after the truck starts.
Most HD diesel have a running oil level fluid check as well as a engine off level
So you're telling me we're gonna be seeing Pappa Ross soon.....Can't wait!
looks like you were on the cross bronx, one of the worst stretches in NYC, can't believe you took that huge beater on that
Love this "colab" with uncle Ritch.
Man the Rivian looks like a nice place to be in. Just wish the front didn’t look like they slapped a couple Dyson air purifiers on it.
Don't forget to buy a gallon of car wash soap so you can pour it on the bed and car tires will slide up the bed while your winching them on
Sounds like an old 7.3. They r gutless but at least reliable. Put an exhaust and tune which should help with power. Shout out to the Hartford Whalers!
Ikea does great things with cardboard and plastic
07:38 I’m only here to stay in touch with the common man…….. $500 Soft closed……WTF $10,000 dressers……
😂😂😂
I have a tow truck business and I had one of those trucks they are nothing but problems they are nightmares that's why they sell them so cheap they're just notorious money pits nothing but electrical issues and that's part of the reason why they go so slow it's an electrical issue on them but they are complete nightmares